Word: spikers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of you, a little plot summary. James is an orphan boy in the care of two sadistic maiden aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Through some green magic, a garden peach grows to geospheric dimensions. James crawls inside through a pulpy canal, meets some eccentric insects (Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, Miss Spider, Glowworm, Earthworm) and floats across the sea on an adventure that grafts Jules Verne onto Lewis Carroll...
...page 1 of the book, Dahl kills off James' parents--they are devoured by a rhinoceros--and, soon after, the wicked Sponge and Spiker. The story then lurches picaresquely amid near catastrophes. Selick gives this all a bit more focus by making sure the early events, including the rhinoceros, resonate throughout the film. He also gives James (winningly played by Paul Terry) a mission: to find his dream city, a Deco-delicious Manhattan. Spider (voiced by Susan Sarandon) here has the melancholy hauteur of a Garbo femme fatale; and the Centipede, obnoxious in the book, is now a Leo Gorcey...
...combination of freshman setter Kate Nash's deceptive quick sets, back sets, jumpsets and outside sets for 42 assists, and the power of spiker Elissa Hart (nine kills) carried the momentum for the team to wins in its next two games...
Harvard found some from an unlikely source. Freshman Garyon Kong, a backup spiker playing for the first time at Harvard, went in as a desperation...
...think the other teams are expecting much from us this year. I don't even know if we're expecting much from ourselves," senior and returning spiker Dani Cunningham said...